New Ice Cream that Changes Color as You Lick It

A Spanish physicist, electrical engineer and ice cream shop owner , Michael Linares, used his talents to create a new formula. Called Xamaleón—a play on the Spanish word for chameleon —the ice cream changes color with the touch of your tongue. It has a "tutti frutti" flavor that starts out as periwinkle in color, then changes first to pink, and then purple.

A Spanish physicist, electrical engineer and ice cream shop owner , Michael Linares, used his talents to create a new formula. Called Xamaleón—a play on the Spanish word for chameleon —the ice cream changes color with the touch of your tongue. It has a "tutti frutti" flavor that starts out as periwinkle in color, then changes first to pink, and then purple.

Before the ice cream is scooped, a special spray that Linares refers to as a "love elixir" helps speed up the color-changing process. The colors change due to temperature changes and acidity in our saliva. Linares attended culinary school where he took a class specifically focused on the frozen dessert. The professor encouraged the students to come up with new flavors, but Linares decided to work on aesthetics over taste. While his fellow chefs didn't believe it was possible, the scientist/culinary aficionado proved them all wrong. It took Linares, along with two other men, only one week to come up with this colorful concoction. Since the patent is not official yet, they've revealed very little about what exactly goes into the ice cream—except that the ingredients are all-natural.

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Linares's ice cream shop is in a small coastal city of Spain and is called IceXperience, suggesting this is one of many interesting icy treats to come.